His book reads like a novel, is rich in history and spans three continents. Born March 11th 1932 in Hannover, Germany of Orthodox Jewish parentage. Family arrested in 1938 and interned at Zbaszyn on the German/Polish border.

He was chosen by the English wife of a German Baron & SS General and enslaved as her picaninny boy servant. At six years of age he suffered being separated and deprived of his family, his loss of childhood and then being put through an 840 hour metamorphosis which taught him to understand English and how to act as a pretend deaf-mute while in service. He was frequently abused during the years spent in slavery.

In 1945, he was abandoned in Hamburg and was rescued by the British army. As he could only speak English, he first worked for the British army before they helped him to get an immigration visa for the United Kingdom in 1946.

Arriving in London just prior to his fourteenth birthday, (and fourteen being the Secondary School graduation age at the time), he was never educated. He became a ‘Jack of all trades, Master of none’. He had only the knowledge of fluently speaking, reading and writing the language of Shakespeare and used common sense to survive.

Rootless, he traveled to Malaya and worked for two years as a mercenary for the Malayan Police patrolling the jungle and then spent five months holidaying in the U.S.A. On his return to England, he joined the British army and trained as a cipher operator spending a year in Hanoi, French Indo-China then four years presenting classical music out of a military radio station in the Netherlands before returning to base camp for three more years as a Drill Instructor. His experiences were both adventurous and exciting.

Honorably discharged in early 1962 after the War Office discontinued the national draft.

In 1966, at the age of 34 years, he legally immigrated to the United States of America.